Hardest Language

[Kobra]

Since when is wikipedia law? As im sure you know alot of people contribute to wikipedia so that proves nothing... If you could put up a source that comes from a professor of Uralic languages I might believe you... As it just so happens I speak a hell of alot of Finnish and I can understand some Hungarian but not a whole lot and my friends father can understand almost no Finnish.... I also have alot of cousins who speak Saami natively, most of them also speak Finnish and they even say there are only a few similarities and that dosnt really matter because Korean and Japanese also share alot of similarities and I doubt a Finn could go to Japan and expect to get around speaking Finnish... Until you learn Finnish and a couple of other languages and compare which one is the hardest you have no room to speak.


Oh yeah one last thing the reason that some of my family speaks Saami and Finnish fluently is they grew up learning it and most of them dont know all the Finnish words or all the Saami words that exist... You can speak Finnish for 70 years and still learn new words almost daily.

[Dr J]

Since when is wikipedia law? As im sure you know alot of people contribute to wikipedia so that proves nothing... If you could put up a source that comes from a professor of Uralic languages I might believe you... As it just so happens I speak a hell of alot of Finnish and I can understand some Hungarian but not a whole lot and my friends father can understand almost no Finnish.... I also have alot of cousins who speak Saami natively, most of them also speak Finnish and they even say there are only a few similarities and that dosnt really matter because Korean and Japanese also share alot of similarities and I doubt a Finn could go to Japan and expect to get around speaking Finnish... Until you learn Finnish and a couple of other languages and compare which one is the hardest you have no room to speak.


Oh yeah one last thing the reason that some of my family speaks Saami and Finnish fluently is they grew up learning it and most of them dont know all the Finnish words or all the Saami words that exist... You can speak Finnish for 70 years and still learn new words almost daily.

You have no right to say that Finnish is the hardest language until you learn every other language.

Either that or use common sense. Every language is part of a family and a native speaker of a language within that family will find learning another language within that language family easier than someone whose native language is part of a different family/group of languages.

Since when is wikipedia law? It's not, but at least it's one reference. Your posts feature no references.

[Kobra]

Since when is wikipedia law? As im sure you know alot of people contribute to wikipedia so that proves nothing... If you could put up a source that comes from a professor of Uralic languages I might believe you... As it just so happens I speak a hell of alot of Finnish and I can understand some Hungarian but not a whole lot and my friends father can understand almost no Finnish.... I also have alot of cousins who speak Saami natively, most of them also speak Finnish and they even say there are only a few similarities and that dosnt really matter because Korean and Japanese also share alot of similarities and I doubt a Finn could go to Japan and expect to get around speaking Finnish... Until you learn Finnish and a couple of other languages and compare which one is the hardest you have no room to speak.


Oh yeah one last thing the reason that some of my family speaks Saami and Finnish fluently is they grew up learning it and most of them dont know all the Finnish words or all the Saami words that exist... You can speak Finnish for 70 years and still learn new words almost daily.

You have no right to say that Finnish is the hardest language until you learn every other language.

Either that or use common sense. Every language is part of a family and a native speaker of a language within that family will find learning another language within that language family easier than someone whose native language is part of a different family/group of languages.

Since when is wikipedia law? It's not, but at least it's one reference. Your posts feature no references.

And you Dr J have no right to say that it is not the hardest language until you learn it and every other language. I am telling you even if you speak a Uralic language Finnish is still DAMN hard to learn because of the way we speak and form our words/sentences it may be easier to learn for a person who speak a Uralic language but it is still harder than for a English speaker to learn Polish or Spanish I know that much it may be in the Uralic family but you dont understand Dr J we form our words and sentences differently from the others...

I dont feel I need references as I am actually a Finn and speak the language.... It would surprise if any of the people who contributed to the Finnish language wikipedia spoke fluent Finnish...

[Dr J]

And you Dr J have no right to say that it is not the hardest language until you learn it and every other language.

Nope, I'm saying that there's no such thing as a 'hardest' language which doesn't require me to learn every language.

Because I know that I come from a biased position, as does every single person on the planet.

Everyone is biased. You don't even have to learn German to understand Mein Vater ist hungrig. That's because German and English come from the same language family. Now, there many difficult aspects of German grammar for native English speakers, but that still doesn't invalidate the fact that aspects of grammar and vocabulary will be easier learnt than a language that is not Germanic, and most extreme, a language that is not Indo-European.

Everyone is in this position. Italians will find Spanish easier and vice versa. Russians will find Polish easier and vice versa, etc.